Associations to the word «Eleventh»

Wiktionary

ELEVENTH, adjective. The ordinal form of the number eleven.
ELEVENTH, noun. The person or thing in the eleventh position.
ELEVENTH, noun. One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
ELEVENTH, noun. (music) The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.
ELEVENTH GRADE, noun. (US) (education) The period in school that comes after tenth grade and before twelfth grade.
ELEVENTH GRADES, noun. Plural of eleventh grade
ELEVENTH HOUR, noun. (idiomatic) A point in time which is nearly too late; the last minute.
ELEVENTH HOUR, noun. (idiomatic) (usually hyphenated) Used attributively.

Dictionary definition

ELEVENTH, noun. Position 11 in a countable series of things.
ELEVENTH, adjective. Coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats